Regional Development Agencies Debate

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Regional Development Agencies

Mark Prisk Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd June 2011

(13 years, 4 months ago)

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Mark Prisk Portrait The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Mr Mark Prisk)
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I am pleased to announce that I have decided to extend terms of appointment for 24 existing RDA board members listed below until RDA closure.

RDA

Board member

Advantage West Midlands

John Crabtree OBE, Cllr Ken Taylor, Dr David Brown, Cllr Mike Whitby

East of England Development Agency

Shona Johnstone, Madeleine Russell, Robert Swann

Northwest Regional Development Agency

Vanda Murray, Dr John Stageman, Lord Smith of Leigh, Mrs Anne Selby

One Northeast

Kate Welch, Lord Shipley, Peter Jackson

South East England Development Agency

Pamela Charlwood, Leslie Dawson, Keith Mitchell

South West Regional Development Agency

Kelvyn Derrick, Ian Ducat

Yorkshire Forward

Barry Dodd OBE, Cllr Kath Pinnock, Mr Bill Adams, Mr Ajaz Ahmed, Mr John Vincent



I have agreed to these appointment extensions, 23 starting on the 14 December 2011 and one starting on 5 March 2012 for a period of no more than one year in order that the RDA boards can remain quorate until the expected closure of RDAs in March 2012.

I have placed further details of these appointment extensions, including biographies, in the Libraries of both Houses. I can confirm that the appointments were made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments code of practice.